Metal trousers-button.



No. 685,208. Patented Oct. 22, 190:. J. & A. HOLT.

METAL TROUSERS BUTTON. (Apfilication filed June 22, 1900. RanewedJuly 81, 1901.) (No Model.)

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:UNlT ED ,"STATES PATENT O E JAMES HOLT AND ANNIE HOLT, OF MELBOURNE, VICTORIA.

METAL TROUSERS-BUTTON.

"s'rEcrFIeATIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 685,208, dated October 22, 1901; Application filed .l'une 22, 1900. Renewed July 31, 1901. Serial No. 70,411. (No model.)

To all whom it mayconcern:

Beitknown thatweJAMESHOLTandANNIE HOLT, subjects of Her Britannic Majesty Queen Victoria, residing at 422 Queen street, Melbourne,in the county of Bourke and Colony of Victoria, have invented a new and useful Metal Trousers-Button, of whioh the following,is a specification.

Our invention relates to an improvement in metal trousers-buttons, in which three sharp prongs are pierced from the center bowl of the button. These prongs are cut on two sides only and bent down to a right angle at their base. These buttons can be expeditiously and firmly fastened to the garment by pressing the prongs through the cloth and a small leather washer placed at the back of the cloth and then setting down the prongs on the reverse side with a suitable concave too The object of our invention is to provide a trousers-button that can be fastened to the garment with metal prongs instead of the ordinary sewed-on button at present in use.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings the large or suspender button is shown full size, the small or fly button is not shown, it being exactly the same as the large one in every particular, but proportionally smaller.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throu ghout the several views.

Figure 1 is a front view of a suspender-button ready to use. Fig. 2 is a front view before the prongs are bent out after cutting them. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line C D of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line E F of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line A B of Fig. 1,drawn horizontally. Fig.

6 is an edge view showing the prongs pressed.

through the cloth and the leather washer and showing in sectional view a concave tool and cloth. Fig. 7 is a sectional view on the line A B of Fig. 1, showing also the cloth in section with the button secured thereto. Fig. 8 is a back view of the button fastened to the cloth, showing the prongs. Fig. 9 is a front View of the button fastened to the cloth.

Our button before the prongs are punched from the center bowl resembles the ordinary trousers-button in size and section, except that it is deeper and wider in the center bowl. (See Figs. 1 and 5.)

The blanks for our buttons are cut and stamped to the required shape in the usual way. The single prong b, Fig. 2, is then cut on two sides only and bent down to a right angle at its base, as shown at b, Fig. 3, by the back of the punch as it passes through the cutting-die. The small piece 0, Fig. 2, is then pierced out to separate the prongs b b at their base, as shown at Figs. 2 and 4. The prongs b b, Fig. 2, are then cut and bent to a right angle, as shown in Fig. 4, in the same manner as single prong b. The thre prongs b and b I) having been cut and bent from the center bowl on the zigzag line 0., Fig. 2, leaves the open space Ct, Figs. 1 and 9, in the center of the bowl of substantially the shape of a keystone.

Our buttons are fastened to the garments in the following manner: The three prongs b and b b, Fig. 6, are pressed through the cloth d and through the leather washer e. The prongs b and b b are then set down, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, with a concave tool f, Fig. 6. This embeds the points of the prongs b and b b, Fig. 7, in the leather washer e and depresses the leather washer e in the center, forcing the cloth d into the aperture a. The cloth being caught in this manner fastens the buttons firmly to the garment. When the leather washer 6, Fig. 7, is depressed in the center, it curls up, at the edge around the prongs b and b I) (see Figs. 7 and 8) and prevents them from scratching the body or tearing the linings or underwear or from cutting through the cloth to the front.

Having fully described in detail the nature 'of our invention and how our trousers-but tons are to be made and fastened to the garment, what we claim as our invention, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A trousers-button consisting of a circular metal plate or disk having a concentric cup stamped therein in the flat bottom of which is an opening of substantially keystone shape, the material displaced to form said opening in the form of three triangular prongs remaining attached by their bases to the metal of said bottom and projected rearward therefrom, two prongs at one edge of the opening ing, of a piece of cloth pierced by said prongs and a leather washer on the cloth pierced by said prongs, the leather washer and cloth :5 being pressed inward in cup shape into the opening and the points of the prongs being twisted back and embedded in the leather washer, substantially as set forth.

Dated the 17th day of February, 1900.

JAMES HOLT. ANNIE HOLT.

Witnesses:

G. HARKETT, JOHN Ross. 

